This just in from the sequester front: The Journal Gazette reported that Indiana's Head Start program could lose roughly 1,000 spots. Programs in Columbus and Franklin have already held lotteries to determine which needy children will get kicked out.
Buzzfeed ran a feature yesterday on a 39-year-old Army reservist, Jeff Maryak, who moved from North Carolina to the Washington, D.C., area to take a desk job at Fort Mead that he thought would take care of his mounting bills and living expenses. It more or less did, until the sequestration cut his salary by nearly 27 percent. He got a moonlighting gig delivering pizzas, but that wasn't enough, so now he's figuring his best option is to go back to war.
"It's not something a normal, sane person should want to go to do. But it's an overwhelming financial opportunity," Mr. Maryak told Buzzfeed.
Sadly, he's a bit too late. The Iraq war is over and the United States is pulling out of Afghanistan, so for the first time in nearly 12 years it's getting hard to find a spot on the frontlines.
The White House, meanwhile, has furloughed 480 people – from the Office of Management and Budget.
But it's not all bad news. Mother Jones reported that lawmakers passed a "stop-gap-spending measure" that preserves $380 million to finish developing a missile — designed to intercept other missiles — "that doesn't work" and which "the Department of Defense doesn't plan on buying."
And it should come as a great relief to hear that while hundreds of thousands of federal employees are taking pay cuts, lawmakers will not have to endure that hardship. Oh, their offices are getting hit with budget reductions — which could mean that some staffers will lose their jobs. But Congressional salaries themselves, the Hill reported, are completely exempt — since they are not appropriated by Congress or included in presidential budgets.
Lawmakers could, of course, pass a bill cutting their own salaries, which would go into effect in the next session of Congress, but they are far too busy blocking President Obama's nominees to crucial positions and running home at every opportunity to raise money.
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